An engineering approach to Software Testing and Test Automation

Do you know enough about your test environment when designing a Load Test plan? What can you do and what would you do to provide stakeholders with the most valuable information in the context and at the moment? How do you use their feedback in your testing work? ...

Original date: 12 May 2009, 5:00pm Quality Assurance Functional/Regression Automated Testing and Test Automation Requirements: Usability, Maintainability, Scalability, and Robustness. Maintainability Requirements Matrix Setup - What level of convenience you want to have setting-up the scripts? If Test Data file and path are hard-coded in the script then pointing to another data file requires code change. [...] ...

Original date: 6 May 2009, 12:30pm Quality Assurance Functional/Regression Automated Testing and Test Automation Requirements: Usability, Maintainability, Scalability, and Robustness. Scalability Requirements Matrix Platform - What applications should be able to handle the Framework? The business need for automation of QA/testing activities appears when testing volume, turnover and coverage requirements make it beneficial enough. Volume means ...

Original date: 28 Apr 2009, 1:00pm Quality Assurance Functional/Regression Automated Testing and Test Automation Requirements: Usability, Maintainability, Scalability, and Robustness. Robustness Requirements Matrix Manned / Unmanned Test Execution - What level of manual efforts in automated testing would be acceptable for you? Baby-sitting Test script may stop or break execution at any moment. Manual action [...] ...

Original date: 21 Apr 2009, 12:30pm Quality Assurance Functional/Regression Automated Testing and Test Automation Requirements: Usability, Maintainability, Scalability, and Robustness. Usability Requirements Matrix 2 Transparency - Do you want Automated Test execution to be another “black box”, or you want to have a fully reproduced picture with documented test results? Execution Log Built-in execution log [...] ...

Original date: 14 Apr 2009, 1:30pm Quality Assurance Functional/Regression Automated Testing and Test Automation Requirements: Usability, Maintainability, Scalability, and Robustness  Usability Requirements Matrix 1 Applicability - How would you want to use Automated Testing solution? Basic Regression Testing Implemented as a sequence of data entry steps going through the screens. No or simplified verification based on hard-coded [...] ...

QA Automation – GUI Function Wrapping Some of the statements below will be covered in detail in my subsequent posts. Now I use them to get straight to Test Step requirements. Please read details below the picture. Quality Assurance Functional/Regression Automated Testing and Test Automation Requirements: Usability, Maintainability, Scalability, and Robustness. Let’s break them down [...] ...

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What is it? IDEF0 is abbreviation for Integration Definitions for Functional Modeling [of Systems]. Zero means type of modeling. (IDEF0 – function modeling, IDEF1 – information modeling, IDEF2 – dynamics modeling). How it looks? Image courtesy: Wikipedia How it works?   Image courtesy: Berry College ...

2-tier Data-Driven Test Automation Architecture (WinRunner) – Advanced Reporting ...

2-tier Data-Driven Test Automation Architecture (WinRunner) – Functional Diagram ...

2-tier Data-Driven Test Automation Architecture (WinRunner) Business Components Business Components – Functions that implement a certain business-case testing specific functionality which is used by Test Scripts. Typically Business Components are contained within compiled modules; that allows re-using the implemented logic in a similar Test Scripts. Business Components may incorporate standard WinRunner TSL functions and Service [...] ...